Marcelle Thomas

The inclusion of natural gas as part of Guyana’s ‘Green State Plan’  has snagged this country’s  access to the US$80 million in payments for forest services from Norway being held by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Minister of State Joseph Harmon says.

Tenders will be advertised for the 2018 supply of pharmaceuticals and supplies in an attempt to avoid a repeat of this year’s purchasing woes.

The Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center believes that constitutional reform should be addressed before oil begins flowing in 2020, its country representative, Jason Calder says.

Five prisoners are believed to be on the run today after a fiery uprising flattened the Camp Street jail yesterday claiming the life of a prison warden, Wain Wickham,  and injuring at least six others.

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) has a role in ensuring that the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) and procuring entities adhere to guidelines of the Standard Bidding Document that performance bonds’ requirements are met and other documents are produced before a contract is awarded.

When infrastructure projects like the one for the monument base at Palmyra fail, it is the engineers who should take the blame and not the government, contractor or procuring agency, according to veteran geotechnical engineer, Charles Ceres.

As it aims to end its dependence on private storage space for pharmaceuticals and medical supplies, Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence announc-ed yesterday that her ministry  has severed rental relations with the New GPC and by the end of this year will do the same with all others.

Following reviews of the technical and environmental aspects of the Liza Project Development Plan that was submitted by Esso Exploration and Production (Guyana) Ltd (EEPGL) in December, 2017, the Government is expected to grant a production licence to ExxonMobil for production of petroleum to move ahead in 2020.

Six persons are claiming lands north of Crab Island, Berbice, where a major oil support facility is to be built but the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) says that the swathes in question belong to the state.

Two days after she found herself at the centre of allegations of using her office to get preferential treatment at the Fort Wellington Hospital, APNU+AFC Region Five Councillor, Carol Joseph has resigned.

The nurse, whose complaint against an influential APNU+AFC councillor in Region Five was reported in yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News, has been transferred with immediate effect and she firmly believes that she is being targeted over the matter.

Ten years after a furore over the desecrating of world renowned Guyanese artist, Aubrey Williams’ murals at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, the National Trust of Guyana had to be called in to avoid a recurrence.

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) will review Health Minister Volda Lawrence’s emergency purchase of drugs for the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in the wake of concerns that procurement procedures were breached.

  While ANSA McAl says it adhered to a procurement process which saw it getting a contract for the supply of $605M in drugs to the Georgetown Public Hospital, the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) says that it has not seen the contract or approved any such sum.

Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) investigations continued yesterday into the sale of lands in the controversial ‘Pradoville 2’ housing scheme with former Prime Minister Samuel Hinds facing questions on his role in the removing of a transmitting mast from the community to clear the way for houses to be built.

Former president Bharrat Jagdeo, former Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon and former PPP/C minister Robert Persaud were among seven  persons who were arrested and questioned by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) yesterday as part of its criminal investigation of the sale of lands in the controversial ‘Pradoville 2’ housing scheme.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) has won its protest of the award of the contract for the supply of juice for the Ministry of Education’s school feeding programme after the Bid Protest Committee (BPC) ruled that the evaluating committee did not stick to the criteria stipulated in the tender documents.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that he would again hold public consultations to select a new list of nominees for the chairmanship of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) if a proposed meeting between his representative and the Attorney-General on the issue is positive.

A Board of Inquiry (BoI) into allegations of mismanagement and malpractices in the procurement of pharmaceuticals at the Ministry of Public Health has recommended the removal of current Permanent Secretary, Trevor Thomas and strongly recommended that the representative of a Trinidadian company be debarred from future tenders.

Just two weeks after going public with a restructuring plan, Nigel’s Supermarket seems poised for a holiday turnaround and its owner Nigel Johnson attributed it to “overwhelming support” from the public.